What age did you start playing?

I started out when I was 12yrs. one summer playing snooker at a church rec. room. We had three poolrooms in town, you had to be at least 18yrs. to enter two of them and just 14 for the younger poolroom.

Snooker was 10 cents a cue, 9-ball was 10 cents a game, 8-ball was 15 cents a game, and you could play on time for 1 1/2 cents a minute, that was 38 yrs. ago!.....


there are no poolrooms in my home town now, my how things have changed!



David Harcrow
 
I played occassionally from the time I was about 14 or so...I was at a private boarding school for high school and they had a couple of 8 foot tables in the gym. We got 1 hour in the rec room per week in the summer and I would always hits balls during that time, though I had no clue how to play. From there, I played on a 6 ft barbox table at my dorm in college whenever I felt like playing, but college was short-lived and I rarely played again until I was 21.

When I finally moved out on my own to Denton, I began playing every weekend at first, then started seeing better players and coming out more often. By the time I left Denton, you could say I was officially hooked. :)
 
I was about eight. My grandfather had an 8-ft table and gave it to my father. We put it in the basement, and my father showed me how to hit balls and shoot angle shots (which was the extent of his pool knowledge). My uncle was probably a solid A player and taught me a bit about position. I didn't get truly serious about pool until I started playing with a group of serious players when I was in the Air Force.
 
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Aye chihuahua! And then a year after I started, the eyes started to go! lol
 
My dad bought a 4x8 when I was 14. I played alot till I was age 22 and then started raising babies, and keeping them fed was a full time job.
That took 20 years, but I have fallen in love with the game all over again.

I just wish I could still see those long thin cuts like I used to.


Justin Nuder
 
i was around 11 when my mom bought a pool table for the garage (9fter). At 12 i played in a tournament at a resort that we stayed at for a week and i was to late to sign up for the 18 and under so I signed up for the 18 and over tournament and I won. I don't know if they let me or not but it was a lot of fun. Not to long after that I stopped playing but then i started playing seriously again around 21, about 6 years ago.
 
I started playing at the ripe age of....24....sorry i found the game a little later than most others.
 
I played banger pool for the most part from age 16 very rarely.

I actually found the art of pool/billiards at age 27 :(
 
Oh to be so young again...

I was 18 when I first got sucked into this game...went out and ran into an ex-girlfriend of mine at a local pool hall...of course she's long gone, but my true love is still with me and always will be. That being the games that are the cuesports. It's the only constant thing that is in my life...together forever I suppose. :thumbup:
 
I first started playing around the age of eight. My parents were divorce and my father sang country music. Me and my brother would get to go to the bar where he played and he would give us a roll of quarters to keep us busy. I gambled for the first time at one of these bars a couple of years later when my father told a man " i bet my 10 year old can beat you!" We won some money and I have been hooked on the game (and GAMBLING!) every since!!!. :thumbup:
 
Started at 8

My dad would go to the local watering hole to play dominoes and I would tag along. I had little interest in the dominoes, all I wanted to do was play pool. He always handed me a couple of bucks and I would keep myself occupied playing on the bar boxes. Later on in life, at 17 I went in halves with a friend and got a AMF 9'. It looked like a Brunswick GC and played real nice. I have quit the game for years at a stretch several times but I keep coming back.
 
This is me in January of 1978. I was 6 years and 2 months old. If my memory is correct, I picked up a cue for the first time only a few months before this picture was taken (obviously).

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Either beginner mechanics or my first masse shot (quite possibly both).
 
Same time, same background (possibly)?

Jude Rosenstock said:
This is me in January of 1978. I was 6 years and 2 months old. If my memory is correct, I picked up a cue for the first time only a few months before this picture was taken (obviously).

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Either beginner mechanics or my first masse shot (quite possibly both).
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Jude:

Wow, the date and your pic sure brings back some memories, that I describe here:

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?p=1461890#post1461890 (post #66)

It seems you and I had a similar start, at approximately the same time. I had "lazy eye" during this age (my right eye), and wore corrective glasses that intentionally handicapped my left eye to force corrective dependence upon my right eye. It worked -- to this day I'm thankful and grateful for sticking it through the eye "relearning" period -- but gosh, in those days, I HATED those glasses! :D

But ah yes, the "Nodine Hill" neighborhood in Yonkers, NY. What a wonderful neighborhood in those days, so full of character! Nowadays, it looks like a scene from one of the Terminator movies -- "Ash Street" is aptly named due to all the burned-out buildings... <sigh> :(

-Sean
 
I was thirteen, when I got my first taste of the game. My life changed dramatically, at this time. I ate, slept, and drank the game. I still love to play 46 years later.
 
I've played very little in my days. Maybe once every couple of years just to kill some time, if I went out to a bar. I started my journey in pool at the age of 51, and play almost everyday of the week. I am getting better, currently I am 54.......................Charlie D
 
i started when i was 13 im 15 people say i play pretty good so im gonna find out at the smokey mountain shoot out
 
I was around 11 when my dad taught me how to shoot on the quarter tables in a bowling alley. It wasn't until my dad decided to work back in the states when he put us both in a league. That's when I started learning the fundamentals of the game. So I would say I truly started playing when I was 17 about to turn 18.
 
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